Happy Birthday Aussie, belated Happy Birthday to JWFacts, and future Happy Birthday Beks! I keep my birthday low key, because all I want is to left alone with no responsibility for the day. The kids get me a few trinkets, and my husband gets take out for dinner and a cake. I sit on my ass and read or watch movies, and that makes me happy.
jamiebowers
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It's my birthday today and i did NOTHING.
by Aussie Oz indo you find that years after leaving the jws birthdays just don't matter?.
i just can't get into it.
in years past the inlaws have made an effort and given a little party but now we are out country its just not a big enough deal to be bothered with.. no presents, no cake.
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{Sigh}, I could use a hug...
by Billy the Ex-Bethelite inmy first two exams were this week.
things didn't go well.
the classes are tough -- math and science.
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jamiebowers
Try to find ou how everyone else is doing in the class. If the vast majority aren't doing well, there will be a grade curve. Talk to your professors about extra credit. If neither of those work out, look into dropping the most difficult class and take it later. Don't be discouraged. Just about everyone has a few problem classes.
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References: what did the elders say about you to your other half during courtship?
by truthseeker inwhen you announced your intention to marry, what did the elders say to your future bride/groom?.
in a long distance courtship, did you have any trouble getting a good "spiritual" reference?.
an elder in my hall told the elders in my wife's hall that i was a low hour publisher.. .
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jamiebowers
I wish they would've said something to me, but I wasn't baptized, and he was when he started pursuing me, so it would've been a bad witness. Despite the fact that the elders knew he was mentally deranged and violent enough to beat his own mother, no one said a word to me. I was only 17 when we married, and he was 25.
Ironically enough, after I fled for my life after enduring almost seven years of physical and mental torture, his elder uncle wanted me to warn his next prospective victim...I mean bride.
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i got involved with a woman from work ugh!
by jeckle init was like a rock and roll relationship and ive broken up with her 4 times but she comes back and i let her and i almost moved in with her but now i dont want to talk to her ever again!.
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jamiebowers
Hm this brings to mind the little ditty "don't shit where you eat".
My thoughts exactly...great minds think alike!
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maybe they will build compounds in the desert...or join the muslims
by Aussie Oz indo any of you remember as i do, in the 80s some in our congo's would muse about whether the society would build huge compounds up north to house us all as persecution and armageddon escalated.. led me to wondering in the light of all the recent slapping they are getting whether it could actually happen.. i mean, could they possibly talk the flock into believing that babylon the great has fallen and been destroyed invisibly and the current 'persecution' is the poking god in the eye.
move upstate to patterson, cash in brooklyn.
build these centres out in the middle of nowhere to contain and isolate the cash cows.
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jamiebowers
It wouldn't be to the Watchtower's benefit to gather the faithful in one place, because there is no one geographical area that could sustain the need for jobs that bring donations into the orgaization.
Edited to add: The Watchtower and Islam combining forces would be like putting two divas in a single dressing room, LOL!
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They still confuse me...the JWs that is. money money money
by Aussie Oz inmy son popped in yesterday, which was fantastic!.
he had the day off because it was way to windy to construct sheds.
but get this.... he is off to sydney in a couple of weeks with the rest of the work gang, as far as i can tell all either jws and hangers on.
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jamiebowers
Hopefully you son will not only get away from the cult indoctrination but also get out in the real world and learn that his jw girlfriend...um....doesn't have the only one, LOL!
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The GB Knew What They Were Doing
by compound complex ini believe that the governing body knew very well what would be the consequences of publishing the above article on apostates.
they carefully word every article, not only for the faithful, but for the unfaithful, and for those who have never believed our faith.
the above article and the comments here show me their great wisdom, because they have achieved exactly what they wanted.
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jamiebowers
The gb intentionally causes "persecution" all of the time. But I don't really think that the people who took the "mentally diseased" article to the press and police had the rank and file jw in mind. I'm pretty sure that the goal was to expose the Watchtower for the mind controlling cult that it is to thinking, rational people in the world, to both those in power and those who are pestered at their doorsteps.
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I got an invitation...
by Dudu infrom my special pioneers friends to stay over a weekend with them in their house .... we ve been friends since forever and they arent aware that im not attending meetings or fading..... i will really miss my friends inside, should i go to their house?.
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jamiebowers
Why not just meet for breakfast and/or lunch and spend the day? If you spend the night, it will be very easy for you to feel trapped.
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Arguing with a Russellite
by Lunatic Faith ini posted a blog yesterday regarding some of the occult images used by the watchtower society.
i got an interesting response today from an apparent russellite.
i have never run into these people so i was surprised at his vehement defense of russell.
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jamiebowers
There has been much written about Russel's "miracle wheat" scam and some other corporate entity, the name of which I can't recall. The testimony in his divorce proceedings painted him, in my mind, as an odd man who never consumated his marriage and prefered the company of women much younger than his wife.
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When was the first time...
by OneDayillBeFree inyou ever went on jwn?
do you remember?
what made you do it?
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jamiebowers
We had an electrical fire at our house in January 2007 and had to stay at a hotel until repairs were finished. I couldn't do my work at home job without long distance phone service, so I spent my days surfing the net. Although I'd been out of the cult for 20 years, my anti-Watchtower exposure was limited to silentlambs.org. Curious as to what other information was out there, I looked up Jehovah's Witnesses and found this site. After the initial cult indoctrinated fear of apostates disapated, I spent hours of laughing and crying over the posts. I really started doing lots of reading some months later when my dear brother called to tell me that he was no longer a jw.